France’s former president François Hollande will run for a seat in the National Assembly in the upcoming parliamentary elections. “The extreme right has never been so close to power. There is political confusion in our country,” the 69-year-old socialist said on social media platform X on Saturday, announcing his candidacy. In view of this serious situation, Hollande said he had decided to run as part of the new joint left-wing Popular Front movement in the department of Corrèze in south-western France. Hollande was France’s head of state from 2012 to 2017. The Socialists, France’s Left Party,…